A Bowls Club Wedding (return season) 2006

Darwin Bowls Club

This was a remount and reworking of the original performance in 2003. Our Youth Dance Leaders program for 2006 allowed us to integrate them more fully into this show.

Over many years of working with the Grey Panthers senior women’s dancing troupe, one comes to a rich appreciation of the ‘friendly rivalry’ that exists between these women and their teams (bowling, softball, golf). A Bowls Club Wedding takes this a little bit further! Combining these amazing women with Darwin comedic performers Gail Evans and Yoris Wilson, throw in the exuberant break and hip hop dancing of Tracks youth dancers, and then get the audience to participate in social dancing and you end up with an inter-generational, cross dance style, multi-art Tracks classic.

A Bowls Club Wedding is the wackiest wedding of the decade, a celebration of love sparked by rivalry in the twilight years. First created for its sell-out season as part of the Darwin Festival in 2003 and later reworked for a cast almost twice as big for another sell-out season in 2006.

Do you remember a time when things were simpler? A time when the biggest worry was who might win the next tournament? Or what to wear to your best friend’s wedding? Who ever thought that ‘team spirit’ could lead us to the very brink of a world war of dancing?

Jack and Kitty, the bride and groom, are long standing members of feuding bowls clubs, the Top End Terrors (sexy, bowls with bite) and the Mindil Monitors (romantics with a prickly tongue). They are mavericks in a world where team acrimony festers over generations of ardent supporters. Tribal loyalties run so deep that such a union is an outrage!

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Media Response

"I don't know what it was like last time you went to a wedding but this one is a fantastic night of entertainment. It's part musical, part dance, part drama, part party – and a sporting tournament when the teams take their battle to the green." Ben Langford, NT News